In fact, most of the people I find that bitch about Vista have either never run it. Have piss-poor hardware or have completely bought into the Mac ad's.

Or bought a brand new dell xps - had it blue screen within 5 hours and discovered that it would be 50/50 as to whether WoW would run for more then ten minutes (after 10 minutes it generally would hold together - unless it decided to PSOD).

That is my vista story. Honest. No bullshit. One of the biggest PC manufactures shipped me a PC which was made for gaming which could not run the biggest PC game on the market (which is so graphicly challenging that it is able to run on my grandfathers hamster-in-a-wheel powered antique).

Why did my new XPS fail so badly?

Was it the hardware?

NO - since rebuilding to XP x64 I have had precisely 0 - thats ZERO - blue, purple, red, green, polka-dot crashes. Not one. WoW goes in and stays in every time (although I've quit playing since I bought the machine). Every bloody thing works.

So was it Dells version of Vista?

Ok this I doubt. Yes I'll freely admit it did have some shitty ISP and that crappy M$ (doesn't)Works on it but really it was pretty vanilla.

So given that I personally accuse Vista.

About this time some people are gonna start bitching that Nvidia caused 28.8% of all vista crashes last year and ATI created 9%. But considering the amount of desktop PCs out there with only built in GFX cards (and a fair few of them are nvidia made remember) and the picture looks awfully more like vista has a problem with any GFX card.

I'm becoming pretty convinced that the next Windows recommended specs will include:

A) A braile compatable monitor.B) A blind opperator.C) At least 57.6 TB if storage for the OS.

(Oh the machine is 2 months old before you say that was my day 1 teething problems)

PS: Blue you go pwned.PPS: Derek! your here. But I'm too tired to be bothered. Hmm then again - DSmart posting in a thred which was meant to be about the cutting edge of graphics technology. That actually funnier then the original joke

What are the main differences between our freedom of speech laws and theirs? Is it simply they have greater protection from libel suits or.....?

We don't have freedom of speech laws.

You could be charged with slander or liable in this country but it is still a hanging offense to commit treason. Please note when I say hanging I do mean it - you could rape and slaughter 500 children in this country and only get prison - but insult the queen and your dead.

Our law is in a mess. For instance it is actually LEGAL to urinate on the drivers side of any cab/taxi within london. Nobody is gonna try it because honestly if you piss on a cab drivers car he will kick your head in - but legally it's fine to do so.

The big problem is where as your laws are pretty new some of ours date back so far that some were carved into rock but a T-Rex.

Unfortunatly for us the government here in the uk never for one second thought it would be a good idea for people to be able to say what they thought. America likes to brainwash people into supporting their country with the pledge at school and the general "USA ALL THE WAY" attitude. GB on the other hand much prefer that we're shit scared of being executed if we say anything wrong.

But hey we haven't lost a war in very nearly 200 years so honestly who is right?

PS Fucking bollocks now I have a nice fat file with MI5 as well as the CIA. Shit.

Oh sweet - free moneyz. I'll go rob a few houses tonight to steal some more violent videa games which I can give to my children. That story should see nicely and be completely safe because amazingly our police are as professional as the media - they WILL NOT investigate a burglery unless you, the victim, know who did it.

This is one of thoose guilty failures of mine. I own the game. It's upstairs in a box along with X3 and various others which no matter how much I try and love them I just cannot get into them.

I'm kinda proud of myself for playing bioshock last night for a few hours.

I love these games in principal - but in reality I just cannot get into them. Every single one of the elements are right - but at the same time some designer along the way forgot to inject it with my own brand of digital crack.

My main reason for getting the X-Fi was simply framerates. Popping in a hardware solution rather then software gained me an extra 10% performance on my old gaming rig. And was far more effective then any other upgrade for the same money.

It's also quite handy tou have your gaming headset plugged into you onboard sound and still have music coming from the addon if your in a 6 hour raid or similar.

Everyone here knows that each of Derek's games are the pinnacle of both programming and gaming excellence and would never need patching.

You will burn in hell for suggesting that Derek's work is so imperfect that it needs patching you blasphemer.

This weekend as well???? Shame on you - remember Derek lost his publishing deal but on the 3rd day he defecated; sorry! published again.

BTW Off topic - Jesus dies on Friday and stays dead for 3 days. So on the Sunday we're celebrating what? Jesus is dead and will come back to life tomorrow????? That makes nearly as much sense as a egg laying rabbit.

Do you guys who post on here regulary really have such foul mouthes in real life?

Didnt your mothers ever wash your mouths out with soap?

Can we get a thread here at least occasionally that you dont see endless reams of the Fbomb and others? Furthermore why is that kind of language even allowed on a site that has kids and early teens regulary visiting it?

Its time to clean up your guys language its immature and ridiculous.

Honestly - if you don't it like stay out of the comments. You will definatly not be missed. Btw that so called fbomb you are scared of is actually one of the most colourful and versatile words in the english language. It can be used as a noun, adjective, verb, adverb etc etc. The word has been a part of the english language since the 15th century and yet you fear it - most likely because it is used to express stronger emotions then you will allow into your life.

I'm not sure why so many heaped scorn on Unreal 2. No, it wasn't the epic (no pun intended) game that people expected but it was still a very solid shooter.

Remember the first unreal - the menu screen with the camera doing a flyby on a castle. From that very first moment it was special. Unreal 2 was just a very generic mission based that couldn't wow as much as the loading screen in unreal 1 did.

Yup - don't deny there is other options. But a gametap gold membership seems an awfull lot more value for money then just a one off purchase.

I'd be playing every episode if I could get that here (I've dual booted my PC for less then what they offer). But for some insane reason all they say is that they will spread beyond the USA and Canada during 2007. I have no idea how to shout numbers but really at this point it is starting to piss me off.

PS Plus of course their NOT carrying Dr Derek Smart PHD games afterall which is always a bonus.This comment was edited on Mar 14, 18:39.